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Unless I put her account on snooze, I regularly see posts that my (literally) abolish-money/anarcho-communist ex shares, even those from groups which I have repeatedly marked as “block all content from this group”.
Why are you still friends with your ex ?
OK, random thought experiment. As someone without a facebook it's hard for me to evaluate, but how much damage would really be caused if facebook just disappeared one day?
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There really isn’t any such thing as fact checking, only narrative pushing.
Can you fact check the flat Earth theories? Sometimes there is objective truth and sometimes there isn't.
So sure we can suppose that there is an objective truth (ironically this point is also debated), but who do you trust to be its arbiter?
* FB is a company, not a government, so they can more or less do what they want.
* It's concerning that one company has so much influence. "Just go somewhere else" is tough with the network effects that a system like theirs has.
* FB is responsible for tons of misinformation spreading and is very toxic in a lot of ways.
I'm not really sure what, if anything we should do, but it'd be nice to read a bit more elevated discussions about the problems with social media.
Let's face it, Big Social Media's "disinformation" label is no more than "things that go against the mainstream narrative" these years.
- ‘Too Big to Fail’: Russia-Gate One Year After VIPS Showed a Leak, Not a Hack
- Siri plays dumb about documentary “Hillary's America”
And posts anticlimate change articles.
These discussions lack a lot of nuance. I think all of these things are worth considering: * FB is a company, not a government, so they can more or less do what they want. * It's concerning that one company has so much influence. "Just go somewhere else" is tough with the network effects that a system like theirs has. * FB is responsible for tons of misinformation spreading and is very toxic in a lot of ways. I'm not…
Let's face it, Big Social Media's "disinformation" label is no more than "things that go against the mainstream narrative" these years.
I feel like this is a meta commentary that someone who posts articles like - ‘Too Big to Fail’: Russia-Gate One Year After VIPS Showed a Leak, Not a Hack - Siri plays dumb about documentary “Hillary's America” And posts anticlimate change articles.
And this is why Facebook has no business being part of fact checking. While it may look different, this is no different than two folks on the phone getting interrupted by ATT and being told they are incorrect on their assumptions about topic X. Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are the carrier, and should be treated as such.
It's why you probably deactivated your spam filters the first time some signup email accidentally got caught in it.
